Vowels
A pure vowel
What is a monophthong
Sounds can differ only in voicing
What is cognate pairs
The type of transcription with inserting addition notation or diacritics to distinguish variations in production
What is narrow transcription
What is phonetics
Smallest unit within a language
What is a phoneme
Vowel produced with gradually changing quality and is represented with diacritics
Consonants are described by:
What is
1. Place of articulation
2. Manner of articulation
3. Voicing
Characteristics that go beyond the phonemic segments of speech
What are suprasegmentals
A set of symbols for sounds
What is the International Phonetic Alphabet
A speaker's mental list of morphemes
What is lexicon
Vertical position of the tongue body
What is tongue height
These sounds have a momentary complete obstruction
What are stops
Refers to all of the linguistic properties that exceeds the segment. List the type parts
What is prosody
1. Intonation
2. Stress
3. Timing
4. Loudness
The number of sounds and syllables in the word Scissors
What is 5 and 2
The sonority principle
What is languages prefer syllables that build, then decline in sonority in an orderly way; nucleus should be at the peak
the 4 parameters of vowel description
what is
1. High mid low
2. Front Central Back
3. Tense lax
4. Round Unrounded
Air flows through a narrow passage to create noise for these sounds
What are fricatives
The difference between open and closed syllables
1. Convey accurate info
2. Phonological analysis
3. Clinical application
4. Linguistic application
Used linguistically to determine whether sound differences are phonemic
What is minimal contrasts
What is ʌ, ɛ, ə
For these sounds, airflow is momentarily blocked, then released to narrow constriction
What are affricates
Two general approaches to defining a syllable
What is based on phonological segments and the force of sound sonority
Transcription for the word "International Phonetic Alphabet"
What is /ɪntɚnæʃəl fənɛtɪk ælfəbɛt/
phonetic variations of a phoneme
What is an allophone